The Governance Of England
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This book examines English political and public life during the period 1550 to 1850. The first section of the book outlines a number of key elements of the political culture that persisted throughout the early modern period, the prejudices and presuppositions that underlaid and informed public life. The second section examines the institutions of government - from monarchy through to parliament, through the legal system, to the localities, parishes, boroughs and counties. The book also looks at the extent of, and the limits on, participation in the various institutions and includes a number of case studies of governments at work. The aim of this book is to broaden understanding of the early modern era and of the nation's political and public history by emphasis on a whole range of forms of participation and by insistence on the creativity and flexibility of early-modern governance, and the characteristic tensions it contained. This book is designed to be of interest to students of early and modern British history.